Should we be scared of COVID-19?

The world was once at a standstill. More importantly, the United States of America has been closed for some weeks now. 2020 has not been the best year with many sad and terrible events taking place. The world has been faced with a problem that according to the internet has been predicted to happen. In 2020 COVID-19 became a problem for the United States as well as other countries in the world. Why were we not prepared? Why were people not warned? Is this as serious as they're making it? According to the news, this pandemic is very deadly and we need to take various precautions, but why? Will social distancing stop the spread of the virus or just contain it until we're done with social distancing? Many people are unaware of and have no answers. Is this pandemic just a scare for us to ignore other things going on in the world? We don't know, and won't know until its too late. Also, I've heard people say that felt they had COVID-19 before it was blown up in the news. They say they felt the symptoms and thought they might've had the flu. Yet nobody knows what the heck is actually going on. Social distancing is supposed to end on May 1st, but should people take it into their own hands to social distance longer? With the uncertainty and the mixed opinions should we be scared of COVID-19 and or are you scared of COVID-19

Covid-19 Facts: True or False?

As we all know the corona virus and how it has effected our lives, but they way we hear about it is through social media so how much of it is actually true? I have read that  US intelligence community has determined that the Chinese government concealed the extent of its coronavirus outbreak and gave false numbers of cases and deaths in the country, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing three US officials. Intelligence officials transmitted a classified report of their findings to the White House last week. Bloomberg described its sources as saying that the report's main conclusion was that China's public reporting of coronavirus cases was "intentionally incomplete." Two officials told the outlet that it found that China's numbers were fake.China was the center of the novel coronavirus outbreak until last week, when the US's number of cases of COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus, surpassed China's. The World Health Organization declared it a pandemic on March 11. As of Wednesday, more than 885,000 people across the globe had been infected and more than 44,000 had died. China had reported 82,361 confirmed cases and 3,316 deaths, according to a database from Johns Hopkins University. The US had reported 190,089 positive cases and 4,102 deaths.The outbreak originated late last year in the city of Wuhan, in China's Hubei province. As more and more people got sick, China's communist government implemented strict lockdowns and ordered residents to stay inside while officials raced to contain the spread of the virus. What is your guys opinion on this? 
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-intelligence-found-china-misrepresented-coronavirus-stats-report-2020-4